Manifolding account-book.



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WILLIAM F. BOCHOFF, 0F DAYTON, OHIO,LASSIGNOR T0 THE NATIONAL CASH REGIS- TER COMPANY, 0F DAYTON, OHIO, A CORPORATION 0F OHIO, (INCORPORATED IN "Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 5, 1911.

Application filed June 15, 1906. Serial No. 321,798.

J b all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM F. BOOK- HorF, a citizen of the United States, residing at Dayton, in the county of Montgomery and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Manifolding Account-Books, of which I declare the vfol.

lowing to bc a full, clear, and exact descrip- Ltion.

This invention relates to manifolding sales 4books andfhas for its main object to rovide an improved construction of tripl1cat ing book in which the original slip as well as 'the copies are adapted to `be removed from the book'and used as desired.

A further' object is to provide a book in which the separate sheetsare fastened to the cover by staples whereby the sheets may be easily detached from the cover without leaving any stub.

An additional in which the original slip is shorter than the duplicate or triplicate slips, whereby only the duplicate and triplicate slips areengaged by the stapling means 'so that the entire sheet may be more easily detached from the cover. v

With theseand incidental objects in view, the invention consists in certain novel features of construction and combination of parts, the essential elements ofwhich are set forth in appended claims and a preferred form of embodiment ofwhich is hereinafter described with reference to the draw-- ings which' accompany and form part of this,

specication.

Of said drawings: Figure 1 is a perspective View ot the improved book with a sheet 'sons in recording items of sales or other partly drawn out. Fig. 2 is a perspective view of one of the sheets showing the car- .bonized back of the original slip. Fig. 3 is a transverse section of the book showing the relative lengths of the guard and the slips of each sheet, the slips being widely sepa-,

rated.

vThis invention comprises .a manfolding sales book for use by clerks or other per-4 desired matter, a plurality of copies of which are desired. ^This object is attained by providing a'book comprising a plurality of separate sheetsv eachfolded to form a'plurality of slips on which records are duplicated.

As the invention is shown it comprises object is to provide a book in an assembled form a' plurality of separate sheets which are lof a size to fold into three parts, each part being the size of the usual slip in use. The carbon is placed on the outside thirds of the sheet l as indicated at 2 and 3 and it will be seen that the carbon maybe placed on the sheet at one operation as it is all on one side of the sheet. The sheets are printed with any desired matter and are folded after having been carbonized in the manner shown in Fig. 3 forming an original slip 4, a* duplicate slip 5 and a triplicate slip 6. The manner of folding the sheet will be apparent from Fig. 2. It will be seen that the duplicate slip 5 is folded 1 over on the triplicate slip 6 and the original slip 4 then folded over both slips -so that the centerV third of the sheet is used as a triplicate slip, whereby no' carbon is Inecessary on this sheet 6.

lIt will be seen from Fig. 3 that the origi-` nal slip is shorter than the duplicate andthe triplicate, and is therefore not fastenedl into the book as is thecase with the other slips. The folded sheets are combined with a cover 7 being fastened thereto by. staples at points indicated by numeral '8 in Fig. 2; the staples 'are numbered 9 and are shown in Fig. 1. As will be seen the staples are Y passed through "the duplicate and triplicate slips Anear the ends vthereof vso that only slight force is necessary to withdraw the slips from the cover. The staples 9 are long enough so that when the book is new the sheets are only loosely retained in the cover. If the staples were pressed until more/and more pronounced. With the present construction, however, `the staples are.

loose enough notto tightly hold the upper most sheet so -that the entire sheet ma -in all cases be detached from the cover...

his f has the decided advantage that there is no A stub left in the book and it also provides for detachment of the slips without a separation thereof. In the case of b'ooks, the slips 4of which are so fastened as to leave a stub in the cover, the detachmentffrom the book also separates the slips. In this iro however, all three slips remain attached to each otherand may or may not be detached after separation from the cover, as the sys' tem in which they are used may require. y

The upper portion of the cover 7 forms a guard of suiicient thickness, upon which, when in use, rests the sheet comprising the original, duplicate and triplicate slips that are being written upon so as to prevent the written matter from being transferred .to the sheets below said guard. This guard, as shown in Fig. 3, is lslightly shorter than the top slip of the uppermost sheet, so that' the free end of said slip may be grasped to withdraw it and its companion slips from beneath the guard portion of the cover. During this withdrawal operation the guard will be slightly raised, as shown in Fig. l. As the end of the slip 4 attached to the slip 6 passes above thefree end of the guard the latter will assume its guarding position,

' thereby permitting the Withdrawn sheetto take its position on top of the guard.

While the form of device here shown and described, is admirably adapted to full the objects primarily stated, it is to be understood that it is not intended to confine the invention to the one form of embodiment herein disclosed, for it is susceptible of embodiment in various forms all coming 'withi n the scope of the claims which follow.

What is claimed is as follows:

1. A manifolding account book comprising a plurality of sheets, each folded into three parts, making original, duplicate and triplicate slips, the original slips being shorter than the duplicate and' triplicate slips, and the triplicate slips forming the center portion of the sheets, the original and duplicate slips forming the end portions of the sheets respectively,transferring material on the same side of the two end portions of the sheets, a folding cover adapted to form' a writing rest, and staples fastened to said cover, and passing through th'e duplicate and triplicate slips near the fold between them but not passing through the original sli s.

s. A manifoldng account book comprising a plurality of sheets, each having a center portion and two end portions, the center portions forming the triplicate slips, and the two end portions of each sheet being folded in succession over the center portion thereby forming original and duplicate slips,V the ,original slips being shorter than the duplicate and triplicate slips, transferring material on the same side of the two end portions of each sheet, a folding cover adapted to form a writing rest, and staples fastened to said cover, and passing through the duplicate and triplicate slips adjacent the fold between them but not passlng through the` original slips, the fold in said cover being at the end thereof distant from said staples.

In testimony whereof I atliX my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

WILLIAM F. BOCKHOFF. Witnesses:

FRED M. MCSWEENEY, WM. K. WILLIAMS. 

